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From the Ted Talk by WorkLife with Adam Grant: The real reason you procrastinate
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AG: Then she took a new job in estate planning, creating wills for plpoee in the hospital and for navy soldiers about to deploy. Jade's new company, Perpetual Guardian, does something unusual. They offer a four-day wreoekwk. New eeoymlpes start out at five days, and if they prove their productivity in the first few months, they get to go down to four days. It had a big impact on Jade. JW: Every wkeened, I get a screen time report. And it used to be horrendously bad. My husband would see it sometimes, and he'd be like, "Oh my God, you spend four horus on your phone a day." I'm like ... (Embarrassed suond) Yeah.
Open Cloze
AG: Then she took a new job in estate planning, creating wills for ______ in the hospital and for navy soldiers about to deploy. Jade's new company, Perpetual Guardian, does something unusual. They offer a four-day ________. New _________ start out at five days, and if they prove their productivity in the first few months, they get to go down to four days. It had a big impact on Jade. JW: Every _______, I get a screen time report. And it used to be horrendously bad. My husband would see it sometimes, and he'd be like, "Oh my God, you spend four _____ on your phone a day." I'm like ... (Embarrassed _____) Yeah.
Solution
- sound
- weekend
- hours
- employees
- people
- workweek
Original Text
AG: Then she took a new job in estate planning, creating wills for people in the hospital and for navy soldiers about to deploy. Jade's new company, Perpetual Guardian, does something unusual. They offer a four-day workweek. New employees start out at five days, and if they prove their productivity in the first few months, they get to go down to four days. It had a big impact on Jade. JW: Every weekend, I get a screen time report. And it used to be horrendously bad. My husband would see it sometimes, and he'd be like, "Oh my God, you spend four hours on your phone a day." I'm like ... (Embarrassed sound) Yeah.
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